[lit-ideas] Re: Dogo Argentino, etc

Traumatic memories are always vivid.


Yes indeed.


It was the only time in my life, however, that I
can remember my entire body being soaked with
sweat.
I'm not surprised. What you did was very brave. Staffordshires can even bite their owners if they try to break up a dog fight (inadvertently, perhaps) and pit bulls are far more likely than them to have been bred for fighting. (They're smuggled in here for dog fighting.)
Here too people have been badly wounded, and babies killed, by pit bulls; in the last case, the family member who tried to stop the dog was fairly badly hurt. Of course other dogs will do that too, of course the owners are very much to blame; but those dogs are killing machines. (If the dachscunds at the bottom of the street tired of barking at me and went on the attack, I imagine I'd be OK... a rogue bull terrier is another matter.) 


Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dogo Argentino, etc



I'm sorry, Eric.


Thanks very much Judy, but let me also emphasize
that it was several years ago. Traumatic memories
are always vivid. That's why I blather on about it.

It was the only time in my life, however, that I
can remember my entire body being soaked with
sweat. My pants, for example, were sopping wet
with my own sweat -- as though they had been
pulled out of a washing machine. My socks were wet
my own sweat. There was nowhere to sit down, and
no use for it but instantly showering.

Like playing six nonstop hours of tennis in one's
street clothes. All compressed into twenty minutes.

Granted, it's not a philosophical argument, but
one wishes philosophy had more room for intense
experience ... though maybe Robert Paul hit the
nail when he quoted Nussbaum's:

"That there might be other ways of being precise,
other conceptions of lucidity and completeness
that might be held to be more appropriate for
ethical thought—this was, on the whole, neither
asserted or even denied."

Best,
Eric




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